Piracy: German navy rescues British tanker

The British tanker Trafalgar was suddenly surrounded in the Gulf of Aden by at least eight speedboats, the Telegraph informed. It radioed for help and a German frigate patrolling 12 miles away despatched a Sea Lynx helicopter.

The German navy said that the pirates fled at high speed as the helicopter loomed down on them.

The incident came as the owners of the Sirius Star, the Saudi supertanker captured at the weekend off the Kenyan coast, said that its crew, including two Britons, had not been harmed.
The ship has dropped anchor off Somalia and negotiations opened between the owners and the pirates, who are growing increasingly organised and sophisticated with every multi-million-dollar ransom they secure.

Laden with two million barrels of Saudi crude oil worth more than £60 million, is the biggest ship ever seized by Somali pirates.

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